A study led by Dartmouth Engineering professors demonstrates a possible new technique for connecting electronic implants with the surface of the brain, as well as a new method for ensuring safe, ...

A medical biofilm is a solid aggregate of microbial cells with altered phenotypes and unique architecture attached to a surface and to each other. They are distinctly different from those encountered ...

Biohacking evolved from wearables to tech implants. As grinders embed chips and magnets in their bodies, we take a look at ...

Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) announced today that it received FDA premarket approval (PMA) for the use of its Infuse bone graft in ...

Mini dental implants use a one-piece screw measuring less than 3 millimeters wide, unlike larger two-piece traditional implants. They can replace teeth or help to stabilize dentures. Mini implants may ...

Metamaterials are composites with a very precisely controlled structure. It is this structure that determines the properties of the metamaterial, not the substances it is made of. Typically, a ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...

Our laboratory is in the process of developing a material, nano calcium sulfate that can be used to enhance bone regeneration at defects in the jaw bones of humans. We have fabricated a calcium ...